Erschienen in:
01.10.2010 | Editorial and Commentary
Vascular resections in pancreatic cancer
verfasst von:
Thilo Hackert, Markus W. Büchler
Erschienen in:
Updates in Surgery
|
Ausgabe 2/2010
Einloggen, um Zugang zu erhalten
Excerpt
The most important factor to improve the poor prognosis of patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is to achieve a radical surgical resection followed by adjuvant chemotherapy [
1,
2]. The question to which extent surgical resection is reasonable especially in advanced tumors has been controversy discussion within the last two decades [
3,
4]. In the meantime, several studies with high scientific quality have clarified at least parts of this problem that has led to changes in the sometimes fatalistic attitude which clinicians even in surgical departments face this tumor entity with. …